Louis-Mathieu Molé

Louis Mathieu, comte Molé, ( born January 24, 1781 Paris, † November 23, 1855 in Epinay- Champlâtreux ), was a French politician.

Biography

Molé lived during the French Revolution in Switzerland and England, returned around 1796 back to France, and gained through his book " Essai de morale et de politique ," in which he outlined I. as a political necessity, the rule of Napoleon, the favor Napoleon, and was legal Adviser ( Requetenmeister ), 1807 prefect of the department of Côte- d'Or, 1809, he was State Council ( Conseil d' État ), soon after General of bridges and causeways, Count of the Empire and in 1813 Minister of Justice.

When Napoleon's abdication he resigned his offices, and later joined the constitutional royalists on. In August 1815 he was raised to the peer of France. From September 1815 to December 1818 he was in the Cabinet Duke of Richelieu Secretary of the Navy. In the Chambre des Pairs ( Peers ) he was opposed with determination against the ultra- reactionary measures of the government. After the July Revolution, he was the first ministry of Louis Philippe the post of foreign minister, gained the recognition of the July Monarchy abroad by he proclaimed the policy of non- intervention. Following the resignation of Adolphe Thiers in 1836, he was entrusted with the formation of a new conservative cabinet, he took over as prime minister, and at the same time also the Foreign Ministry.

Since Molés foreign policy underwent the most violent attacks by all parties because of the evacuation of Ancona and Belgium, in the Adreßdebatte in January 1839, the chambers were dissolved. The elections fell from but so unfavorable that he and his colleagues took his dismissal March 8, 1839. Since then, he also participated in the Chamber of Peers rarely in policy debates. In 1840 he became a member of the Académie française, and took there the armchair 34.

After the February Revolution of 1848 he was elected to the National Assembly. On February 23, 1848, he became Prime Minister on a day. After the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 by Charles -Louis -Napoleon Bonaparte, he retired into private life.

Louis -Mathieu Molé died on November 23, 1855 at the age of 74 years at his castle Champlâtreux and was buried in the church of Epinay- Champlâtreux.

Family

• His father Édouard François Mathieu Molé, President of the Paris Parlements ( Supreme Court ) died during the French Revolution in 1794 under the guillotine.
• His grandfather Mathieu -François Molé (1705-1793) was Parlementspräsident in Paris.
• His Ahn Mathieu Molé (1584-1656), seigneur de Lassy et de Champlâtreux also Parlementspräsident in Paris, played a significant role in the Fronde, before he became Chancellor of France and Keeper of the Seals of France.

Works

• Essai de morale et de politique "(Paris 1806, 2nd edition 1809)
• Discours politiques et académiques.

Portrait

• Acquired Mathieu -Louis Malé " 1834 painting by Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres from the Louvre in 2009. Refer to diagram above.